Platform Engineer
Job Verve - Hired
New York, United States of America
8 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 170KJob location
Remote
New York, United States of America
Tech stack
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Github
Identity and Access Management
Data Logging
Load Balancing
Autoscaling
Grafana
Kubernetes Helm Charts
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Terraform
New Relic (SaaS)
Job description
- We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our DevOps team and take meaningful ownership of our growing infrastructure
- Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
- Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), establishing reusable patterns and enforcing standards across teams
- Architect, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) with a focus on reliability, security, and developer experience
- Design and maintain Helm charts for applications and services across multiple environments
- Drive platform reliability - owning scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategy (load balancing, auto-scaling, multi-region resilience)
- Define and implement observability standards across metrics, logging, and tracing (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
- Serve as a technical lead during incidents on primary revenue-generating applications, owning resolution and contributing to post-mortems
- Mentor engineers across the team and act as a trusted advisor to development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform adoption
- Contribute to the team's on-call rotation with a proactive, systems-thinking approach
Requirements
Mentoring Problem-solving skills Grafana Kubernetes, * Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design at scale
- Strong Terraform skills - module authoring and IaC architecture, not just usage
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments (GKE)
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture
- 7+ years of relevant platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security across GCP
- We're open to allowing the right person to learn our industry on the job. We welcome diversity and non-traditional paths into all of our roles. We believe in hiring the right person as opposed to the right combination of keywords
Benefits & conditions
- Unlimited PTO
- 12 paid holidays
- 3 wellness/ social responsibility days
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match
- Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance
- Parental Leave Policy
- Employee Assistance Program
- FSA & Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Wellness Reimbursement Program
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Work Travel Program
- English/ German Language Classes
- An Apple MacBook and telephone reimbursement
- Fun (online) events organised by and with colleagues
- And work with a great team and the most fantastic brands!
- 27 vacation days
- Yearly 3 wellness days
- Training budget of 500 Euro per year
- Company pension
- Development and career opportunities